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Comment: “Plato’s communism is a supplementary machinery to give effect to and reinforce that spirit which education is to create.” (Nettleship)

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  • Western Political Thought

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Richard Lewis Nettleship (1846–1892), the Balliol idealist, makes this judgement in his Lectures on the Republic of Plato, published posthumously in 1897. It ranks the two institutions of the Republic: education is primary and positive, forming the guardian's character; communism is secondary and protective, removing whatever might undo that formation. The reading is faithful to…

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  • Education Creates the Spirit
  • Communism as Supplementary Machinery
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